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Posted by Rick Merrill on 11/13/06 17:24
curious314159@yahoo.com wrote:
> Thats is a good point Richard. There is indeed a note
> regarding compatibility of firewire DV camcorders with generic
> CMU firewire device drivers: DV cameras are not necessarily
> in the class of devices defined by the 1394 Digital Camera
> Specs according to:
>
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~iwan/1394/compat.html
>
> DV cameras I've tried (3) did not work with these drivers,
> while every firewire (uncompressed video transfer) camera
> device has worked fine.
>
> So I wonder: Has anyone managed to get the CMU drivers
> work with any of the Canopus or ADS NTSC/Analog to
> Firewire converters?
>
> Ben
>
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>><curious314159@yahoo.com> wrote ...
>>
>>>Not knowing the specifics of the IEEE 1394
>>>camera protocol, I reason the DV devices maybe different than generic
>>>firewire cameras in the way they are accessed by various firewire
>>>device drivers (CMU vs. Windows). So I would like to find out
>>>ultimately:
>>>
>>>Is there an Analog to Firewire conversion device that will act exactly
>>>as if it was a firewire camera compliant with the 1394 Digital Camera
>>>specifications on the Windows side (when I try to access the
>>>image content from my program)?
>>
>>Sounds more like an issue with the CMU drivers than with
>>the DV/Firewire protocol itself. (Since commercial software
>>doesn't seem to have those kinds of problems.) The FAQ
>>suggests emailing Christopher Baker with that sort of question.
>>Did you contact him?
>
>
Sony calls their DV firewire "I-link" and I've had several of them
work fine with Windows XP SP2. They also work with FireStore devices.
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